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Recommended Podcast: “The 1787 Project” with JWI Affiliated Scholar Justin Dyer
We heartily recommend a new podcast series produced and narrated by JWI Affiliated Scholar, Prof. Justin Dyer: The 1787 Project. The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Captivate.fm, and Listen Notes. We point you toward a September 14th, 2020 episode about judicial supremacy, which is the idea that the judiciary’s interpretation of the Constitution […] -
PODCAST: Ilya Shapiro on “Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court”
Author and lawyer Ilya Shapiro joined JWI deputy director Garrett Snedeker and intern Spencer Reeves to discuss his new book, Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (Regnery). Shapiro’s book concerns the partisan battles over Supreme Court nominations that have become a focal point in judicial politics in the past few decades. […] -
LISTEN: Prof. Hadley Arkes on Sen. Hawley’s Judicial Strategy on Issues, Etc. Podcast
On September 3rd, James Wilson Institute founder and director Prof. Hadley Arkes joined the Issues, Etc. podcast produced by Lutheran Public Radio. Prof. Arkes discussed his recent essay in Public Discourse, the Democratic track record on Roe v. Wade in Senate, “liberal” abortion extremism, and a proposed political and judicial strategy for Pro-Life Republicans. Listen […] -
Podcast: “America on Trial” discussing the American founding with author Robert Reilly
Robert Reilly is a writer and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. He has published on topics of US foreign policy and “war of ideas.” He walks us through his timely new book, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, which pushes back on recent theorists who have argued that the American […] -
“Memories of Ralph and Lessons for Lawyers in Crisis”: Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing
In his column for The Catholic Thing, Prof, Arkes honors his late friend Ralph McInerny by drawing on McInerny’s explanation of natural law as “something your grandmother would understand.” Rather than being an esoteric theory, natural law is fundamentally about common sense propositions that your grandmother would have instinctually apprehended and that only a professional […] -
LISTEN: Prof. Hadley Arkes on Racial Protests, Riots, and Social Justice on the Issues, etc. Podcast
On July 7th, JWI founder and director Prof. Hadley Arkes sat down with Lutheran Radio’s Issues, etc. Podcast to discuss the Black Lives Matter protests, incendiary riots, and the nation’s complicated history with slavery. Prof. Arkes offers insight into the views of the founders and the people of the early United States with regard to slavery. […] -
“On the Monuments: May We Really Honor All of the Dead?”: Prof. Hadley Arkes in Newsweek
This article was originally published in Newsweek and may be accessed here. When General Ulysses S. Grant received General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox to arrange the surrender of his Army, Grant recalled their service together in the Mexican War, when Grant was a young officer. Grant was able to summon his sympathy for “the […] -
LISTEN: Prof. Hadley Arkes on the First Things Podcast
In the latest episode of the First Things podcast, JWI founder and director Prof. Hadley Arkes sat down with First Things contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. Prof. Arkes reviews the metaphysical claims at issue in Bostock and explores some of the potential legal, social, and […] -
“On the First Principles of Moral Reason”: Paul DeHart in Public Discourse
In an essay for Public Discourse, James Wilson Institute friend Prof. Paul DeHart continues his interaction with Prof. F.H. Buckley’s criticism of natural law reasoning. In an article for Law & Liberty, Prof. Buckley argued that “natural lawyers” fall victim to the “is-ought” problem pointed out by British skeptic David Hume – you cannot derive […] -
Lincoln and the Electric Cord of the Fourth of July: A Statement from Hadley Arkes, JWI Founder & Director
The Fourth of July comes this year when we are seeing a massive movement in the streets, professing to be “protests,” but seething with a rejection of the American Founding and our institutions. The fine points–if there are fine points–get lost, and what comes through is a hatred of America. We find “Juneteenth” offered now, not […]